Juan Fernando Santos Chief Creative Officer, Studiocom (digital marketing agency) www.studiocom.com Santos is the creative director for Studiocom, where his responsibilities include leadership for the design team, user experience concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences. Prior to joining Studiocom, Santos was the chief creative and technical officer for iKioskos Communications Corporation, […]
BIF and Matt Mason
Matt Mason Author, The Pirate’s Dilemma and ex-pirate radio DJ The Pirate’s Dilemma Mason began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London, going on to become founding Editor-in-Chief of the magazine RWD. In 2004, he was selected as one of the faces of Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign, and was […]
BIF and Mavericks at Work
Bill Taylor Author, Mavericks at Work www.mavericksatwork.com/ Co-Author of Mavericks at Work, Taylor is a provocative and inspiring voice on the future of business – an agenda-setting writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. As a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, […]
BIF and Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson Author "The Ghost Map" and founder Outside.in www.stevenberlinjohnson.com www.outside.in Johnson is the best-selling author of five books. His most recent work The Ghost Map tells the story of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London. Johnson is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at the New […]
BIF and Jay Cohen
Jay Cohen Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security www.dhs.gov Under Secretary Jay Cohen, vice Rear Admiral, USN Retired, serves as the Under Secretary, Science & Technology Directorate with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Having led the US Office of Naval Research office for an unprecedented 5+ years, Admiral Cohen is […]
Business Innovation Factory
I’m at a conference up in Providence for the next 2 days, here at the Business Innovation Forum. I’m posting my notes from the talks, which are 15min sessions from great storytellers.
BIF and Jason Fried by Walt Mossman
Jason Fried (as interviewed by Walt Mossman) Founder and CEO, 37signals (web-based software and services) www.37signals.com Fried is the founder and CEO of 37signals. Fried is a passionate leader in the field of simple, clear, and elegant web-based user interface design. He spearheaded the concept, design, and development of Basecamp, 37signal’s web-based project management tool […]
BIF and Euan Semple
Euan Semple Independent Advisor on social computing for business www.euansemple.com/ Semple is a well-known writer, thinker, public speaker and independent advisor on social computing for business. As the former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC, Semple pioneered the use of weblogs, wikis and on-line forums, enabling the staff to work more effectively. Semple’s unique […]
BIF and Matt Cottam
Matt Cottam Cofounder and Principal – Tellart (design consultancy) www.tellart.com Cottam is a co-founder of Tellart and serves as the company’s CEO and creative director as well as being a part-time faculty at RISD (The Rhode Island School of Design.) At Tellart, Cottam uses information architecture and design methods to discover challenges, find opportunities for […]
BIF and Dean Esserman
Dean Esserman Chief of Police, City of Providence www.providencepolice.com An expert in community policing, Colonel Dean Esserman’s innovative approaches have revolutionized law enforcement since the late 1970’s. Esserman, a protégé of former New York City police chiefs William J. Bratton and Lee P. Brown, is using his community policing technique to transform Providence’s approach to […]
Futures of Entertainment 2
Last year I really enjoyed Futures of Entertainment, a 2 day conference up at MIT, all about transmedia entertainment. they are runningit again this year and details can be found on their site. I’ve gone and booked a ticket (assuming i can sort out the logistics). Last year I live blogged it, which considering each […]
Meeting People
This week I got to meet up with zeroinfluencer, or David as he is more normally known as. I’d first come across him as part of the team behind Where are the Joneses? and then followed him on Twitter. When I saw he was popping across to New York, for the OMMA awards (they won […]
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Two years ago this week I made the decision to leave Diageo after 14 years – I then proceeded to give 4 months notice! My initial plan was to do freelance social media consulting, an area that was just starting to gain wider traction across businesses. This was slightly scuppered by a chance meeting at […]
Halo XBox
I just won an Halo3 Xbox and a copy of the Halo 3 game at the MIXX IAB conference I’m at (put your card in the bowl and see what comes out). Whilst I’m keeping the game, I actually bought an XBox360 Elite about 3 weeks ago so do not really need 2 (at least […]
NBC Heroes Error page
Don’t you just love it when error messages are so helpful! No idea what I did wrong, but the Heroes NBC page will not let me sign up.
US TV New Shows
Over the last two weeks I’ve taken a look at some of the new TV shows that will appear in the ‘Fall’ season. These are the free ones that are available on iTunes or Amazon. Here’s what I think. Bionic Woman. Loved it, even with Michelle with a US accent. Set up the premise well […]
Advertising or Subscription
I just twittered that I was off to the IAB MIXX conference today and Tom Morris responded, (only partly tongue-in-cheek) that he thought they’d been replaced by Ad Block. Which leads me to my question. If, hypothetically, we all had Ad Block so that no ads were served how much would you pay for your […]
Editing Posts
On Thursday, work held what it calls a Digitivity day, a day for employees, clients (and some press) to get them thinking about what they can do on the web and what the rest of the world is doing. I live blogged the day, with permission, and so have a pretty good record that can […]
Cookies
Why would Firefox cookies on this machine (macbook) prevent me from accessing my blog.bibrik.com site and the admin tool behind it? Everytime I want to take a look at just does nothing unless I delete the cookies from the last time. Anyone know?
Meeting as online comments part 2
College Humor follow-up their first smash hit with the retirement party and the lolcatz.